59^th Midwestern States Championships
42^nd FAI Invitational and 40^th Fall Oldtimers Contests Results
August 24-25, 2002, Muncie Indiana

The Chicago Aeronuts sponsored tri-contest weekend at the AMA International Aeromodeling Center brought out 71 contestants from 14 States and three from Ontario,

Canada. The total included 6 Junior-age contestants, but no Senior-age kids, due in part to those still not recovered from the Junior World Championships. FAI participation was somewhat down due to the impending Team Selection Finals scheduled for September. However, we welcomed 17 new names to the list of contestants who participated to bring our 5-year list of names to 151. Many of the new names belonged to Free Flighters who were early arrivals for the SAM Championships scheduled for the week following the Aeronuts’ weekend.

The usual Friday afternoon contingent of test flyers was cut back by rather breezy conditions, albeit the morning was reported to be excellent for testing. The AMA had just installed electrical hookups at the South end of the field and the collection of motor homes and campers aligned gave the appearance of a large gathering of serious Free Flighters usually seen only in California.

Excellent weather for the two-day contest was interrupted on Saturday afternoon by a thunderstorm, the third time in three years that we have been so visited by Nature. The storm arrived just as the Fall Oldtimers was ending at 4pm and had no apparent effect on the outcome. The FAI events were delayed for one hour and that contest was cut short by one round due to expected visibility problems. The Sunday weather was perfect, with light and variable winds mostly from a Northerly direction. Some flyers were concerned that a slight Easterly shift in the wind direction would take their models into the beans near the power lines. They were allowed to extend the flight line to the East border of the field but had to move back later in the day to the contest control location nearer to the center of the property. The F1J flyoff went to a 6-minute max at about 3 pm with Bob Gutai’s model making the 360 and landing in the alfalfa field South of the cemetery. Bob Perkin’s winning Mulvihill flight landed in the bean field at the South end of the AMA property. Because of the good weather a total of 721 official flights were logged for the three contests.

Many thanks to Bob Johnson who CDd the Oldtimer contest and to his crew of Ken Tillou and Jerry Keith. Special thanks to Charlie Sotich who kept thing running smoothly and totaled up the championship points.

Chuck Markos

OLDTIMER AND NOSTALGIA RESULTS:

020 REPLICA

PL	NAME	MODEL	ENGINE	TIME
1	Rudy Kluiber	Stratostreak		600
2	Elmer Jordan	Kerswap		331
3	Gilbert Robbins	Foo-2-U		304
4	Jack Marsh	Stratostreak	TD	273

NOSTALGIA ½-A

PL	NAME	MODEL	ENGINE	TIME
1	Ron Sharpton	T-Bird	Cox Medal.	360
2	Jack Marsh	1/2A SWAT	Cox Medal.	351
3	Gene Wicks	T-Bird		348
4	Gene Bowers	T-Bird		337
5	Hank Sperzel	Ramrod	Cox Medal.	322
6	Charlie Harper	Ramrod	Fox	314
7	Keith Fulmer	SWAT	Cox Medal.	272
8	Phil Sullivan	T-Bird	Cox	216
9	Kenneth Smith	Zeek	OK Cub	184
10	Bill Snaden	Fubar	OK Cub	144
11	John Seymour	Lucky Lindy	Cox Medal.	48

NOSTALGIA – A

PL	NAME	MODEL	ENGINE	TIME
1	Ron Sharpton	T Bird	OS 15	716
2	Keith Fulmer	SWAT	OS 15	468
3	Jack Marsh	SWAT	OS 15	462
4	Charlie Harper	Ramrod	OS 15	460
5	Gene Bowers	T Bird		454
6	Hank Sperzel	Ramrod	OS 15	349
7	Gene Wicks	T Bird	15	317
8	Doug Marsh	SWAT	OS 19	311
9	Richard Covalt	Zeek 465	KB 19	120

NOSTALGIA WAKEFIELD

PL	NAME	MODEL	TIME
1	Joe Williams	Torontian	541
2	Hal Lorimer	Yankee	540
3	Jean Andrews	Bilgri	513

NOSTALGIA – B

PL	NAME	MODEL	ENGINE	TIME
1	Ron Sharpton	T Bird	OS 29	960
2	Keith Fulmer	SWAT	Dooling 29	577
3	Gene Wicks	T Bird	OS	532
4	Gene Bowers	T Bird		480
5	Richard Covalt	Zeek	K&B 201	462
6	Jack Marsh	SWAT	Torp 23	355
7	Doug Marsh	SWAT	Fox 201	347
8	Charlie Harper	Ramrod	K&B 29R	239

SAM A-GAS

PL	NAME	MODEL	ENGINE	TIME
1	Dan Harshman	Alert	Shillen	357
2	Kenneth Smith	Interceptor	Elfin	350
3	Hank Sperzel	Kerswap	Elfin 15	344
4	Bob Edelstein	Interceptor	Arden 19	289
5	Bob Watson	Alert	Elfin 15	266
6	Ward Delano	Jap Slapper	Atom	229

SAM B-GAS

PL	NAME	MODEL	ENGINE	TIME
1	Elmer Jordan	Zipper	O&R 29	337
2	Kenneth Smith	Alert	Forester 29	328
3	Ward Delano	Playboy	O&R 23	251
4	Bob Edelstein	Ranger	O&R 23	251
5	Bob Watson	Swoose	Hunter 21	204

SAM C-GAS

PL	NAME	MODEL	ENGINE	TIME
1	Bob Edelstein	Playboy	Ohlson 60	303

SAM SMALL RUBBER

PL	NAME	MODEL	TIME
1	Walt Tomash	Gollywock	1053
2	Don Diggs	Dynamo	472
3	Ronald Barron	Miss Canada	467
4	James Ferwerda	Crusader	321
5	Ed Konefes	Cassino	119

SAM LARGE RUBBER

PL	NAME	MODEL	TIME
1	Orville Stewart	Lanzo	1080
2	Joe Williams	Lanzo Duplex	954
3	Ed Konefes	Lamb Climber	697
4	Bob Watson	Lamb Climber	538
5	Fred Blom	Copeland	360
6	James Ferwerda	Lamb Climber	336
7	Don Diggs	Lamb Climber	120

SAM HLG/CATAPULT GLIDER

PL	NAME	MODEL	TIME
1	Ralph Schlarb	Vartanian	327
2	Bill Schlarb	Vartanian	281
3	Rudy Kluiber	Belsky	243
4	JBM Griner	Vartanian	184
5	Bill Smead	Zoomer	176
6	Richard Barlow	Mayday	142
7	John Seymour	Heugelot	109
8	Tom Jones	Obarski	99

FAI INVITATIONAL RESULTS

PL	F1A		F1B		F1C
1	Bob Sifleet	983	Greg Simon	1080	Bob Gutai	1080
2	Chuck Markos	962	Paul Crowley	1029	Bob Sifleet	698
3	Tom Jones	926	Bill Shailor	976
4	Tzvetan Tzvetkov	882	Fred Blom	975
5	Bill Schlarb	776	Richard Wood	968
6			David Lacey	521
7			Paul Shailor (Jr)	282

PL	F1G		F1H		F1J
1	Greg Simon	600	Bob Sifleet	600	Bob Gutai	1200
2	Richard Wood	591	Joe Mekina	542	Jim Haught	1069
3	Ed Konefes	587	Bill Schlarb	453	Jean Pailet	968
4	Fred Blom	578	Jean Pailet	450
5	James Ferwerda	563	Tom Jones	395
6	David Lacey	533	Chuck Markos	290
7	John Shailor (Jr)	528
8	George Clowes	522
9	Jim Gerszewski	267

MIDWESTERN STATES AMA EVENT RESULTS

PL	JR CAT GLIDER		JR P-30		JR 1/2A GAS
1	Adam Marsh	217	Evan Simon	335	Adam Marsh	341
2	Alex Marsh	207	Paul Shailor	331	Alex Marsh	338
3	Ryan Seymour	134	John Shailor	301
4	Evan Simon	81	Adam Marsh	228

PL	P-30		MOFFETT		MULVIHILL
1	Orville Stewart	324	Ed Sneed	780	Bob Perkins	840
2	Jim Ferwerda	321	Joe Williams	773	Joe Williams	777
3	Lee Campbell	304	Ed Konefes	480	Orville Stewart	715
4	Bob Johnson	285	Walt Tomash	236	George Clowes	494
5	Jim Gerszewski	231			Steve Sova	446

PL	AB CLASSIC GAS		B-GAS		D-GAS
1	Charlie Harper	827	Joe Clawson	888	Joe Clawson	750
2	Jack Marsh	583	Hank Sperzel	744	Richard Covalt	600
3	Gilbert Robbins	349	Don Diggs	660	Phil Sullivan	353
4	Louis Black	294	Richard Covalt	480	Hank Sperzel	120

PL	1/2A GAS		HH CAT GLIDER		HL GLIDER
1	Rudy Kluiber	740	Bill Schlarb*	326	Tom Jones	272
2	Keith Fulmer	701	Tom Jones	326	Bill Smead	200
3	Joe Clawson	678	Bill Smead	311	John Seymour	194
4	Jack Marsh	349	Phil Sullivan	276	Phil Sullivan	163
5	Charlie Harper	336	Ralph Schlarb	271	Bill Schlarb	155
6	Ed Riley	320	John Seymour	229	Greg Simon	123
7			JBM Griner	125	Don Diggs	120
8			Don Diggs	108	Paul Shailor (Jr)	118
9			* 4^th best flt tie br		JBM Griner	30

A- ELECTRIC
1 Charles Groth	355
2 Keith Hoover	147

Rubber Hi-point Rudy Schuh Trophy: Joe Williams

Gas Hi-point Carl Goldberg Trophy: Ron Sharpton

Glider Hi-point Gerald Ritz Trophy: Bill Schlarb

1/2A-Gas Celia Goldberg Trophy: Rudy Kluiber

Junior Hi-Point: Senior Hi-point

1. Adam Marsh 2. Evan Simon 3. John Shailor No Senior Entrants

59th Midwestern States Championships 42nd FAI Invitational and 40th Fall Oldtimers Contests Results August 24-25, 2002, Muncie Indiana